QPR and Reading play out draw to stay rooted in the relegation zone

QPR and Reading both remain without a win in the Premier League this season after cancelling each other out at Loftus Road.

QPR and Reading played out a 1-1 draw, with both sides still looking for their first league win of the season (Picture: Getty)

The visitors took the lead in the 16th minute when former Hoops defender Kaspars Gorkss volleyed in after the home side were all at sea defending a corner.Having been booed off at half-time, Rangers ramped up the pressure after the break, equalising in the 66th minute through Djibril Cisse .They would have won it but for a brilliant save from Alex McCarthy to deny Adel Taarabt , the keeper’s second stunning stop of the game.

Kaspars Gorkss gave Reading the lead at Loftus Road (Picture: Getty)

Rangers remain five points from safety – although they did climb off the bottom for 24 hours at least – but Cisse insisted: ‘You see the quality we have in the team, we don’t belong to the bottom.‘No disrespect to the other teams – we don’t belong there but football is on the pitch, it is not by talking.‘We create chances but we don’t score, or we don’t score enough as the other team get more.’Reading also remain in the bottom three but boss Brian McDermott was satisfied after seeing his side claim their fourth draw in their last five league games.

‘We have had a couple of opportunities and maybe a little bit more quality at the death we might have got the win but this is never an easy place to come to,’ he said.‘Chelsea and Everton are good sides and they got the same draw as us.’McDermott reserved special praise for keeper McCarthy, who is keeping Adam Federici on the bench.The Royals boss said of his standout saves: ‘The first one he just got a touch on and it’s a fabulous save. Then, with Taarabt going through, that was a fabulous save as well.’